assholeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Variant of earlier arsehole, from 中期英語 arshole, arcehoole, equivalent to ass +‎ hole. Cognate with Norwegian rasshøl (“asshole”), Swedish arsle (“asshole”). Compare also German Arschloch (“asshole”). Attested from the 1370s, replacing earlier 古期英語 earsþyrel (“anus”, literally “ass hole”). First recorded in 中期英語, as ers hole (Glouc. Cath. Manuscript 19. No. I., dated 1379, cited after OED), ars-hole (Bodleian Ashmole MS. 1396, dated ca. 1400, ed. Robert Von Fleischhacker as Lanfrank's "Science of Cirurgie", EETS 102, 1894, cited after OED.) Slang figurative usage dates to the 20th century; it was used of an uninviting place (compare shithole) in the 1920s, and then of an anti-social or despicable person from at least the 1950s (Harvard Advocate 137, March 1954). It is also used appositionally (as in "You're an asshole moralist", T. Chamales, 1957).

別の表記

• arsehole (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland)
• asswhole (nonstandard, humorous)
• basshole (bowdlerization)

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /æshoʊl/

名詞

asshole (plural assholes) (US)

1. (vulgar) The anus.

   That homemade hot sauce of yours got me twice, both coming and going. My asshole is still sore.

   • 1910, “Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York Third Department”, in Google Books‎, retrieved 27 July 2014:

     She said she couldn't wiggle when she had the doorknob in her asshole.

   • 1954, Ira Wolfert, An Act of Love: A Completely Retold Version of the Novel, →OCLC, page 54:

     'You talk as if you were born without an asshole,' he cried to Commander Semmes.

2. (vulgar, derogatory or offensive, synecdochically) A jerk; an inappropriately or objectionably mean, inconsiderate, contemptible, obnoxious, intrusive, stupid, or rude person.

   My former landlord was a world-class asshole. Fortunately my current landlord is an actual human being.

   • 1965, Jan Cremer, translated by R. E. Wyngaard and Alexander Trocchi, I, Jan Cremer, →OCLC, page 78:

     He philosophised all day about Morandi, Klee, Miró and Picasso, and was such an asshole that he spelled "cunt" with a "d".

   • 2018 December 22, Ellen Scott, “Is this bride in the wrong for kicking a crying kid out of her wedding?”, in Metro‎:

     They are the assholes for thinking they and their little crotch-spawn were special and exempt from the event guidelines.

3. (vulgar, by extension, often appositional) Anything (especially a place) that is unpleasant or undesirable.

   Synonyms: butthole; armpit; shithole; dump

   Welcome to the Northeast, the asshole of America.

   • 1976, Felix Goodson, Sweet Salt, →ISBN, page 254:

     You oughta have better sense than to trust anyone with anything in this asshole place.

   • 1979, Ronald Sukenick, Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues, →ISBN, page 83:

     ... but when he started bugging the bartender to shut the asshole TV off because he wanted to have a serious discussion...

使用する際の注意点

• Asshole is an American English form; the corresponding British English form is arsehole.
• As a pejorative for persons, this term is less vulgar and intense than fucker or cunt. While not intrinsically gender-specific, it is primarily applied to men; gender-specific pejoratives such as bitch are often used for women. Speakers sometimes apply asshole to a woman when they wish to vulgarly disparage her without dragging misogyny into the equation.

同意語

• (contemptible person): jerk
• (contemptible person): dick
• See Thesaurus:anus, Thesaurus:jerk, or Thesaurus:antonyms of pleasant.

派生語

関連する語

• (a jerk or rude person): dumbass, assclown, asshat

参照

• Geoffrey Nunberg, Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years, 2012, →ISBN

語源 2

From Scots ass, asse or ash +‎ hole.

別の表記

• esshole

名詞

asshole (plural assholes)

1. (obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) A receptacle under a fire grate for collecting ashes.
   • 1775, Tim Bobbin [John Collier], The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq., →OCLC, page 68:

     Esshole, Asshole, the hole under the fire to hold ashes.